Prototype via Smilegate

The popularity of the newly-arrived title, Lost Ark, has influenced how developer Smilegate RPG is attempting to command the release. This hasn't necessarily fully mitigated how crowded the servers accept become, however, and many servers have been locked due to high population.

This brings most a question regarding the Lost Ark servers that are locked — when will they unlock, and are players simply trapped in their servers? With the separation of the Head Starting time players and the free-to-play grouping, both starting at different times, it'southward plausible that many players will be separated from their friends, and unable to join due to server locks.

Unfortunately, it will likely be a bit of time before servers begin to unlock. One of two things must occur: either the player base of servers goes inactive shortly afterwards launch, with users having experienced what the championship has to offer, and servers volition be able to take on more players. Otherwise, the backend of Lost Ark will need to exist upgraded, or the servers themselves, to handle boosted capacity. Information technology should be noted that, in Korea, Lost Ark never re-opened a server one time information technology was locked.

Smilegate RPG has stated that, to mitigate the increment in population resulting in Lost Ark servers being locked, they are rolling out new servers in multiple locations in time for the free-to-play release on February 11. In terms of being able to join a currently locked server, however, the simply solution at the moment is to wait.